Graham Chapman (Actor), John Cleese (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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Contains "Argument Clinic", "Mr. Smoke-Too-Much" & "Gumby Brain Specialist" #27 "Whicker’s World" contains: Icelandic Saga & A Court Scene #28 "Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris’ Ford Popular" contains: Puss In Boots & Trim-Jeans Theatre #29 "The Money Programme" contains: Argument Clinic & Hitting On The Head Lessons #30 "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror" contains: Anagram Quiz & Pantomime Horses #31 "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" contains: Fire Brigade & Travel Agent #32 "The War Against Pornography" contains: Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign & Molluscs Truly perfectly tailored to suit those not quite done with evolution, Monty Python’s Flying Circus provides a veritable university education in cultural literacy. Observe the Life of Tschaikowsky. Spend an afternoon with Jean-Paul Sartre. Hear a groundbreaking Theory on Brontosauruses and learn how to rid the world of all known diseases. Clearly, no programme in the history of television has brought such enlightenment to the common man--always, of course, cleverly shrouded in a cloud of so- called "humour," in order to make education palatable to the masses. Watch and learn! With: GRAHAM CHAPMAN as Colonel Sir John "Teasy Weasy" Butler JOHN CLEESE as Mervyn TERRY GILLIAM as Balderston ERIC IDLE as Mr. Smoke-Too-Much TERRY JONES as the Impersonator of Italian Film Directors and MICHAEL PALIN as Erik Njorl, Son of Frothgar Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Animations by Terry Gilliam. Produced and directed by Ian MacNaughton.This set contains six "persistently silly" episodes from Monty Python's third and final full season (the ones introduced by Terry Jones's naked keyboardist). The quality of the sketches is not as consistent as it was in the first two seasons, but no Monty Python collection is complete without such series benchmarks as Njorl's Saga, an exciting Icelandic tale appropriated by the North Malden Icelandic Society; a courtroom burlesque featuring Eric Idle as a very apologetic mass murderer; the Argument Clinic sketch; Gumby brain surgery; and the Fish-Slapping Dance, which Michael Palin is on record as saying is his personal favorite bit of Python nonsense. A warning to more sensitive viewers: There is "material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing," as well as blatant violations of something called the "Strange Sketch Act." Chief among these is the one in which Terry Jones appears as a pitiable man whose every utterance reduces listeners to hysterical fits of laughter; the ill-fated expedition to Lake Pahoe (located at 22A Runcorn Avenue); and an in-person documentary about the sex life of the mollusk, from the scallop ("second in depravity only to the common clam") to the whelk ("gay boy of the gastropods"). Episode 30 has the distinction of featuring two of the most hilariously annoying characters Monty Python ever perpetrated on the public: John Cleese as Miss Anne Elk, who has a theory on brontosauruses, and Idle as the extremely loquacious Mr. Smoke-Too-Much. --Donald Liebenson Read more
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